AN: This long awaited (I assume) chapter is dedicated to my friend Kels. She leaves, I finally update. Go figure. :p
AN2: Yes, finally an update! I'm sorry! I actually found this chapter in my other notebook that I'd abandoned. Ya know, the notebook that has chapter 4 of Harvest in it, as well as the first 3 tries of Not Another One chapter 4 that I had to scrap. LOL. I'm sorta concentrating on Let's Pretend right now.. But I have two first drafts of chapter 2 of Daughters; it's the Abby chapter. Um, I need a filler chapter or 2 for Not Another One, and I can put in the chapter I wrote, I need a filler or 2 for Harvest, and I can put in another chapter, and... Well, I finished chapter 5 of Let's Pretend! Although, now I must tweak it because of something I already posted is in major confliction. :( Oh well, Jenni'll know how to fix it. :D I love my beta. She's special. Speaking of which, you should all really thank Jennifer Paris Morgan, because she's fixing everything for you, and if I can sweet talk her into it, she'll be posting these as soon as she edits them because my baby french fried! sob Oh, and never say that to a homeschool group. They just don't seem to understand and look at you in horror because they think you've dropped an infant into a fry vat. :D Yes, I do know this from personal experience. I don't recommend it to everyone, but it was funny as Hell! Hehe. On to the story...(Unless Jenni has some words of insanity- I mean wisdom, for you. :D)
Fornell stood in front of the plasma screen, watching Gibbs pace between Kate and Tony's desks.
"Damn it, Tobias! I'm missing something, but I can't figure out what the Hell it is!" Gibbs yelled infrustration.
The senior FBI agent chose his words carefully. "Gibbs, first you need to stop pacing-"
"I can't just sit down while my agents are God knows where! I have too much energy to hold still anyways." Gibbs snarled.
"And it's because of all that damned coffee you drink! Stop pacing." Fornell repeated.
To his surprise, the other man actually stopped. "Now what?" Gibbs asked angrily.
"Now, we go over everything that's happened in the last few days that led up to this. I don't care how insignificant it seems, run it by me."
Gibbs hardened blue eyes bored into Fornell, but the other seasoned agent was used to staring down his own people and held the gaze. Gibbs' glare vanished as he let out a deep sigh and took another breath.
"Monday, Kate came to work as usual, but a bit jumpy. We got a call about a body on the side of the road, checked it out, then Tony took Kte to lunch. They came back, saw Ducky and Abby, who told them the victim had been raped and the face had glass shards embedded in it from a bar the women frequent. I stepped out of the elevator into what appeared to be an argument between Tony and Kate; after I interrupted, Tony left, then Kate.
A half hour later, I cam back up from looking for Abby, and found her in the bullpen. She told me Tony'd come back to talk to Kte, then left to find her after reading something she'd written about being raped."
Frowning, Fornell chose that moment to cut in. "Agent Todd was raped?"
Gibbs shook his head. "We thought she had been, but when Tony and Kate showed up together the next morning, they told us she almost been assaulted at the same bar the shards from the body belonged to. She got away fine, except for some nasty bruises on her shoulders, which look remarkably similar to the ones on our corpse. Kate also said that the guy called her by name, 'Caitlyn'. He also sounded like he had bronchitis or something- gruff voice. Then we got a call about another body found behing the same bar where Kate was attacked. We think it's the same guy taking his frustrations out on these other women."
Gibbs ran a hand over his face. "God, I hope he hasn't hurt her. If that bastard so much as touches her, he'll be begging me to take him to prison." He finished with a guttural murmur.
Fornell's eyebrows rose. "I didn't know you felt that way about her."
Gibbs' eyes widened slightly in mild shock as he realized his mistake. "I don't. I m- I feel that way about all my people."
"Even DiNozzo?" Fornell pressed.
"What- No. Yes- Damn it! She's with Tony, Tobias. She's with him and she's happy. Now drop it!"
Fornell dismissed his friend's outburst with a shrug as he continued their earlier conversation. "After the body, then what?"
Gibbs simply looked at him for a moment before replying. "She cried in his arms in the alley... We came back to work until 1730. I told them to leave as I left for the morgue. On my way to the elevator, I ran into the new mail guy, Craig- Literally ran into; he almost spilled my coffee." Gibbs remembered with a frown.
Why couldn't people leave his damned coffee alone?
"Anyway, that's the last time I saw either of them. Balboa's checking the security cameras." He finished.
"Who's interviewing the kid?"
"Craig? NO one's gotten hold of him yet. McGee's running the call that Kate got right before they left."
Fornell frowned. "Mail guy was possibly the last to see them; you may wanna track him down personally." He shrugged in deprecation. "It's what I'd do."
Gibbs pulled out his cell phone as he headed for the stairwell. "You coming, Tobias?... Balboa, get Agent Doseck to help you pull all tapes between 1730 and 1800 that lead from the mail room to the mail loading dock in addition to the bullpen. Now!"
Gibbs hung up, hitting speed dial 5 as soon as the other line closed. "McGee, give me Craig Sanders' address."
There was barely a moment's pause before McGee spoke. "416 Pfluger Street. Tiger Annex apartment 32. It's near that bar where we found the second body.. Uh, Boss?"
"I don't have time for this, McGee; spit it out!"
The junior agent swallowed. "That building was condemned a month ago."
AN: Hope you're all a bit happier now. I found this in my "SENT MESSAGES" box. :DOh, and Kate, hope you liked the chapter name! Muwhahahaha!
